Books like 'Future State: The Next Batman'
Readers who enjoyed Future State: The Next Batman by John Ridley, Vita Ayala, Andrew Constant, Paul Jenkins, Matthew Rosenberg, Paula Sevenbergen & Brandon Thomas also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Boy's Toys by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnother short story in The Administration series.Warrick finds a new kink: guns... -
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The Famoux (The Famoux, #1) by Kassandra Tate
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUpdated every Friday for Famoux Friday.From The Famoux:"The murmurs of Bree Arch’s name echo around the hallway between classes... -
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Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist... -
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Active Memory by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the third and final book in the dark, pulse-pounding, sci-fi neo-noir series that began with the acclaimed novel Bluescreen... -
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The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground... -
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Corpora Delicti by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWealth Is the Only RealityOn the surface, stability has returned to Europe. According to all the official metrics released to news feeds, the Administration and the corporations are stronger and more united than ever. Only in the most secret of government surveillance departments and corporate security divisions would anyone suggest otherwise... -
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Blood & Circuses by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's set to be a busy autumn in New London and beyond. With the ripples of the revolt still running through the European Administration, Val Toreth is slowly settling into the new flat he shares with Keir Warrick. But on orders from the very highest levels of the Administration, Toreth finds himself leaving his regular beat far behind and heading over the Atlantic to Washington D.C... -
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Husk by J. Kent Messum
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom award-winning author J. Kent Messum, a serial killer thriller for fans of The Straw Men and The Shining Girls.LIFE GOES ONFor a lucky few, death is merely an inconvenience. With the help of technology the mind can survive long after a body has been laid to rest. This afterlife, however, is far from paradise...MAKING A LIVINGRhodes is a 'Husk'... -
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The Last Beekeeper by Jared Gulian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes your safe place... is not.When murder strikes a remote community, a reclusive beekeeper uncovers a horrifying secret that could destroy humanity.Jim Parker, a honeybee expert, has retreated to a quaint island in Lake Michigan with his teenage daughter after a terrible family tragedy. He longs to hide from an increasingly dangerous world... -
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Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho am I? What am I? When am I?Laura can't remember who she is. But the rest of the world knows. Because Laura is famous - a dying girl who was frozen until she could be cured. A real-life Sleeping Beauty... -
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Critical Point by S.L. Huang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsS. L. Huang's Critical Point is a breakout SF thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka.Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has stopped a shadow organization from brainwashing the world and discovered her past was deliberately erased and her superhuman abilities deliberately created... -
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The Boy I Am by K.L. Kettle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say we’re dangerous. But we’re not that different. Jude is running out of time. Once a year, lucky young men in the House of Boys are auctioned to the female elite. But if Jude fails to be selected before he turns seventeen, a future deep underground in the mines awaits... -
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Crossfire by Matthew Farrer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe busting dockyards in the Hydraphur system are home to the mighty Imperial warfleets. They dock, repair, rearm and depart in an endless cycle of war. But even in this heart of imperial space, conflict exists. A great religious festival provides the perfect catalyst for civil unrest, political intrigue and murder in the vast Hive cities... -
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Shattered Minds by L.R. Lam
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe can uncover the truth, if she defeats her demonsEx-neuroscientist Carina struggles with a drug problem, her conscience, and urges to kill. She satisfies her cravings in dreams, fuelled by the addictive drug ‘Zeal’. Now she’s heading for self-destruction – until she has a vision of a dead girl.Sudice Inc... -
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Luminous by Silvia Park
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA highly anticipated, sweeping debut set in a unified Korea that tells the story of three estranged siblings—two human, one robot—as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood, perfect for fans of Klara and the Sun and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves... -
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Android: Free Fall by William H. Keith Jr.
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is the future, and while the world has changed, crime has not. When an influential lawyer is brutally murdered at the top of the Beanstalk, a towering exo-atmospheric elevator serving as Earth's hub of interplanetary trade, Detective Rick Harrison reluctantly accepts the case... -
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Angel Blood by John Singleton
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe nurses call this place the Bin. We have to get out. We have to run away before they hurt us for good. But there's no escaping Dr Dearly and his brutality - is there? Four extraordinary children face a terrifying ordeal... -
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Marcher by Chris Beckett
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCharles is an immigration officer with a difference: the migrants he deals with don’t come from other countries but from other universes...Categorized as:
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Brain Thief by Alexander Jablokov
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBernal Haydon-Rumi, executive assistant to a funder of eccentric projects, drops by his boss’s house on the way home from a business trip. By the next morning, he’s been knocked out, his wealthy socialite boss Muriel has stolen a car and vanished, and the AI designed for planetary exploration that she’s been funding turns out to be odder than it should be... -
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Nowhere by Jon Robinson
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'No one's coming for us.Not our families, not the police.No one.'Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are one hundred teenagers from all over the country. They're all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? And how will they ever break free . . -
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The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter
Rated: 3.19 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe critically acclaimed author of the “bold, innovating, and thrilling” (Stephen King) novel The Twenty-Year Death and the “brilliant” (Booklist, starred review) novel Barren Cove returns with a dark and compelling mystery set in the near future.Decimated by plague, the human population is now a minority. Robots—complex AIs almost indistinguishable from humans—are the ruling majority... -
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No. 6 Vol. 8 by Atsuko Asano
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI LOVE YOU, SHION. MORE THAN ANYTHING... -
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No. 6: The Manga, Volume 05 by Atsuko Asano, Hinoki Kino
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“THE MANHUNT IS HERE!” The rumors were true! Armored vehicles from No. 6 roar through the gate into West Block, massacring the helpless and arresting everyone else. Amid the chaos, Shion and Rat realize this could be their only chance to get into the Correctional Facility and save Safu. But when they do make it inside, what they find is worse than anyone could have imagined.. -
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No. 6: The Manga, Volume 07 by Atsuko Asano, Hinoki Kino
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSHION! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?!Safu is a prisoner on the top floor of the Correctional Facility... -
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No. 6: The Manga, Volume 09 by Atsuko Asano, Hinoki Kino
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE SKY IS BURNING.With Rat critically injured protecting him, Shion finally returns to NO. 6. But what he finds there is not the tranquil utopia he left behind, but a city in the grip of panic and chaos. As the “holy city” collapses in on itself, Shion and Rat put will the future of humanity — and their future together — on the line in the shocking final volume of NO... -
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No. 6: The Manga, Volume 04 by Atsuko Asano, Hinoki Kino
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“OUR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL ARE ROUGHLY ZERO PERCENT.”Shion accidentally learns that his childhood friend Safu is under arrest – and all because of him! Not wanting to get Rat involved, Shion sets out alone to save her. But how can he possibly infiltrate No... -
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No. 6: The Manga, Volume 06 by Atsuko Asano, Hinoki Kino
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTO OBLITERATE NO. 6… THAT'S WHY I'VE COME.A series of strange incidents cast a pall over No. 6 as it prepares to celebrate its "Holy Day." Meanwhile, in the tunnels beneath the Correctional Facility, Shion and Rat meet with the mysterious "Elder," who reveals the perverse origins of No. 6, and their connection to Rat's past... -
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No. 6: The Manga, Volume 03 by Atsuko Asano
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsI’M WITH YOU, NO MATTER WHAT. On the run from No. 6, Shion begins moves in with Rat in West Block. Though life outside the comfort of the city is a trial, Shion learns to survive. Meanwhile, back in Chronos, the elite core of No... -
![The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno]()
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the face of horror in modern comics—now get ready for his most ambitious story yet, alongside his Detective Comics partner Álvaro Martínez Bueno! Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter—well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago... -
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Batman (2011-2016) #15 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratings“Death of the Family” part 3. The Joker’s attacks have taken their toll on Batman and his allies, and now they have to face the impossible. Plus: in the backup feature, witness The Joker’s confrontation with the Riddler as the horror of The Joker’s plan is revealed...
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